{"id":60222,"date":"2025-11-25T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/60222\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:07:20","slug":"florida-legend-steve-spurrier-doesnt-hold-back-on-lane-kiffin-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/60222\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Legend Steve Spurrier Doesn\u2019t Hold Back on Lane Kiffin Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lane Kiffin continues to keep the college football<\/a> world waiting as he decides on his coaching future.<\/p>\n

Kiffin has the No. 6 Ole Miss Rebels poised with a 10-1 record heading into this coming Friday’s Egg Bowl matchup against Mississippi State. After this crucial regular-season finale, the highly-sought-after coach will announce his decision in a press conference \u2014 choosing between lucrative head coaching offers from Ole Miss, LSU and Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During Monday’s episode of “Another Dooley Noted Podcast,” Florida Gators legend Steve Spurrier weighed in with his thoughts on the drama surrounding Kiffin.<\/p>\n

Spurrier is staunch in his belief that Kiffin should be able to finish out the 2025 college football season with the Rebels, who are positioned as serious contenders for a College Football Playoff national title.<\/p>\n

“Everybody’s waiting to see what Lane Kiffin’s going to do Saturday after the Egg Bowl… He’ll have a lot of cameras on him for the Egg Bowl,” Spurrier said. “It is a touchy situation. Seems like if they would just say, \u2018Hey, I am going to coach this team until the season is over. If nobody wants to wait for me, I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m going to coach this season and finish it off. Because we started it.\u2019”<\/p>\n

“It’s good to finish whatever the heck you started,” the legendary coach continued. “They’ve got possibly the best team in school history. Give him and that team a chance to finish out… Just wait until it’s all over. But they’re not doing it that way.”<\/p>\n

Spurrier served as Florida’s head coach for 12 years from 1990-2001, leading the program to a 122-27 overall record and its first national championship victory in 1996.\u00a0Kiffin idolized Spurrier growing up.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to be Steve Spurrier,”\u00a0Kiffin said in an interview earlier this year. “When I watched him and his offenses in the visor and kind of the way he’d throw jabs at other coaches and team and stuff, I was like, Steve Spurrier is the man. That’s what I want to be.”<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/p>\n

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